Education towards language awareness in irelandFootnote¹

The terms Ireland and Irish, applied to the educational arrangements and trends described in this paper, refer to the Republic of Ireland, in the sense of the twenty‐six counties of Ireland which are governed from Dublin. No reference is made in this paper to the situation in Northern Ireland. The language labelled Irish here is the Celtic language otherwise known as Irish Gaelic.

Footnote²

I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Vera Regan of the Department of French, UCD, for supplying me with information about linguistics teaching at UCD, and to Joe Sheils of ITE for providing information about the ITÉ Autonomous Language Learning Project. I also wish to thank David Little for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper, a shorter version of which was first presented at the European Symposium on Language Awareness held at the Goetheinstitut, London, October 1991.

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